Rethinking Migrations in Late Prehistoric Eurasia by Fernández-Götz, Manuel; Fernández-Götz, Manuel; Nimura, Courtney;

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Rethinking Migrations in Late Prehistoric Eurasia rethinks the role of migrations in late prehistoric Eurasia, integrating cutting-edge scientific analyses with theoretical perspectives that highlight the complexity of past population movements.

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Migrations constitute one of the most defining features of human history from the very beginning to the present. In recent years, the increasing application of ancient DNA and isotope studies has been revolutionising our understanding of past population movements, although the interpretation of the results is often still controversial. Rethinking Migrations in Late Prehistoric Eurasia provides an insight into cutting-edge research on late prehistoric migrations in Eurasia, integrating different strands of evidence and emphasising the need for combining bioarchaeological analyses with a solid theoretical and methodological background. The 15 chapters within the book range from the 3rd to the 1st millennia BC, with a geographical scope extending from Atlantic Europe to Central Asia. Case studies include a reassessment of large-scale migrations, but also high-resolution studies from micro-regions. Overall, the results offered in the volume reveal the extraordinary diversity of migrations in ancient Eurasia and the ways in which archaeology can contribute to wider discussions on past and present mobility.

This book reviews new ways of documenting migrations in the ancient world and puts forward an important agenda for the future.

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Table of Contents:

• 1: MANUEL FERNÁNDEZ-GÖTZ, COURTNEY NIMURA, PHILIPP W. STOCKHAMMER, AND RACHEL CARTWRIGHT: Rethinking Migrations in Late Prehistoric Eurasia: An Introduction


• 2: MAJA GORI AND AYDIN ABAR: Comparing Apples and Oranges? Confronting Social Science and Natural Science Approaches to Migration in Archaeology


• 3: VOLKER HEYD: The Mobility and Migration Revolution in Third Millennium BC Europe


• 4: ANDREW P. FITZPATRICK: Bell Beaker Mobility: Marriage, Migration, and Mortality


• 5: KRISTIAN KRISTIANSEN: Bronze Age Travellers


• 6: THOMAS STÖLLNER, HANDE ÖZYARKENT, AND ANTON GONTSCHAROV: Andronovo Mobility Revisited: New Research on Bronze Age Mining and Metallurgical Communities in Central Asia


• 7: BARRY MOLLOY, CAROLINE BRUYÈRE, AND DRAGAN JOVANOVI: Rethinking Material Culture Markers for Mobility and Migration in the Globalising European Later Bronze Age: A Comparative View from the Po Valley and Pannonian Plain


• 8: PHILIPP W. STOCKHAMMER AND KEN MASSY: Mobility at the Onset of the Bronze Age: A Bioarchaeological Perspective


• 9: KATHARINA REBAY-SALISBURY: Marriage, Motherhood, and Mobility in Bronze and Iron Age Central Europe


• 10: CAROLA METZNER-NEBELSICK: Migration in Archaeological Discourse: Two Case Studies from the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age


• 11: PETER S. WELLS: The Scale of Population Movements: A Model for Later Prehistory


• 12: VERONICA CICOLANI AND LORENZO ZAMBONI: Alpine Connections: Iron Age Mobility in the Po Valley and the Circum-Alpine Regions


• 13: IAN ARMIT: Mobility and Migration in Bronze and Iron Age Britain: The COMMIOS Project


• 14: NICO ROYMANS AND DIEDERICK HABERMEHL: Migration and Ethnic Dynamics in the Lower Rhine Frontier Zone of the Expanding Roman Empire (60 BC-AD 20): A Historical-Anthropological Perspective


• 15: COURTNEY NIMURA, RACHEL CARTWRIGHT, PHILIPP W. STOCKHAMMER, AND MANUEL FERNÁNDEZ-GÖTZ: On the Move: Relating Past and Present Human Mobility

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